Today I have my review of the Nine Zero Valley Isle Collection. It's a collection of 4 polishes where Jess (the creator mastermind) visited Maui for her birthday in May and developed the polishes based off of her trip. 3 are based off the different colors of sand and 1 based off of the water. This I think her first collection that has a lot of shimmer and flakies. I know she's said before in a YouTube video she's personally not big on shimmer, but these are beautiful. The formulas range from a crelly type polish to jelly. Very easy to work with formulas, smooth and easy to apply. Half are 2 coaters and half are 3 coaters. I didn't have any trouble removing them, however I did remove them fairly quickly after I applied and took my pictures. They don't have microglitters so that's a plus for removal. Over all I'm pretty happy with this collection. Let's get to the pictures!
Coconut
Coconut when I first saw this I thought it was going to be my favorite of the quad, and it's actually my least favorite. It's not a bad polish, but I like another one better. It's an off white, cream crelly type polish with a lot of gold shimmer.
It's beautiful in the bottle. It took 3 coats to get completely opaque on the nail, which is fine, and the formula is good. It didn't want to run or pool on my nail. The formula is on the thicker side (which I also don't mind) but if you're not careful, it can go on the nail uneven.
The gold shimmer is very strong is this polish and definitely looks like clean sand at a beach. Maybe it was my nails not happy with me and making the polish uneven, who knows. Like I said, it's not a bad polish, I just like others in the collection better.
Trade Winds
Here is Trade Winds which is based off of water. It's very pretty, I like the flakies that are in here, they're an iridescent teal or light green and something flashy in the polish. However, the scent is potent! This is one of those blue polishes were the pigment is super strong. I suggest opening a window or a fan...
None the less, it's still gorgeous despite the strong scent. I can tolerate it, but I wanted to warn you. It took 3 coats to be opaque for me. Great formula, not as thick as coconut, but not thin either.
I love how the flakies are and how much they stand out and shine on the nail. No staining on my nail with this.
Black Cove
This is a black jelly polish with a ton of silver holographic flakies. I reallllllly like this polish a lot. It's not my favorite one, but it's my second favorite. It's based off of black sand that Jess had seen in Maui.
In Jess' video she says in direct sunlight 2 coats wasn't opaque on the nail, but not in sunlight 2 was enough. I did 2 and was fine with it. It's not like the polish is completely sheer on the nail in sunlight in 2 coats, it's just not as dark as it is in the bottle. I'm not picky and not a fan of black polishes in general, so 2 coats was perfect for me. No staining for me either.
In 2 coats, it looks opaque to me. Looks like the night sky.
Volcanic
Lastly, and you guessed it, my favorite!! This is a brick red crelly base polish with the gold shimmer that was in coconut. It's similar formula to coconut but a tad thinner. I LOVE THIS. This is also based off of sand.
This went on soooo smooth and in 2 coats. It's such an unusual shade of red, not a blue toned or orange toned red.
I guess I couldn't be bothered to paint my thumbs in the last 2 polishes. I loveeee how the gold shimmer stands out in the background. No staining with this either! All in all, I really enjoyed this collection. Thanks for sticking around, happy polishing and I'll see ya in my next post!
Links to products mentioned:
www.ninezerolacquer.bigcartel.com
Links to products mentioned:
www.ninezerolacquer.bigcartel.com